Zubeyir Aydar

Zubeyir Aydar (1961-) was the President of the Group of Communities in Kurdistan (KCK), the political wing of the Kurdistan Workers' Party.

Biography
Zubeyir Aydar was born in 1961 in Siirt, Turkey, and he worked as a lawyer and joined the pro-Kurdish People's Labor Party (HEP) before joining the Democracy Party (DEP) after the HEP was banned. In 1994, he fled to Belgium when the DEP was banned as well, with many DEP members being imprisoned by the government. Aydar lived in Brussels ever since then, and he was made the Kurdistan Workers' Party's political leader as President of the Group of Communities in Kurdistan. In 2010, he was arrested due to financial transactions with the PKK, but he was released due to lack of evidence.